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    RCS Surgical Research Report 2017

    Author: The Royal College of Surgeons of England
    Year: 2017
    Publisher: RCSENG

    RCS Surgical Research Report 2017 (PDF 8Mb)

    • Library & Publications
      • RCS Publications
        • A Public Poll on the Word 'Surgeon'
        • Access All Ages: Assessing the impact of ages on access to surgical treatment
        • Access All Ages 2
        • Acting on Concerns
        • Actions for the Government to Improve Oral Health
        • Annual Report 2004-2005
        • Annual Report 2005-2006
        • Annual Report 2006-2007
        • Annual Report 2007-2008
        • Annual Report 2008-2009
        • Annual Report 2009-2010
        • Annual Report 2011-2012
        • Annual Report 2012-2013
        • Annual Report 2013-2014
        • Annual Report 2014-2015
        • Annual Report 2015 -2016
        • Annual Report 2016 -2017
        • Annual Report 2017 - 2018
        • Arthroscopic Meniscectomy
        • Associate Specialist Appointments
        • Asymptomatic Scrotal Swelling - Commissioning Guide
        • Avoiding Unconscious Bias: A guide for surgeons
        • Better Care for the Severely Injured
        • National Bowel Cancer Audit
        • National Bowel Cancer Audit - Supplementary
        • Breast Lumpectomy
        • Breast Mastectomy
        • Breast Reducation - Commissioning Guide
        • Building a Culture of Candour
        • An Investigation of the Performance of the 3M Capital Hip System
        • UK Cardiothoracic Transplant Audit Report
        • Careers in Surgery 2014
        • Carpel Tunnel Release
        • Cataract Surgery
        • Children's Surgery - A First Class Service
        • Code of Practice for the Surgical Management of Jehovah's Witnesses
        • Colinic Diverticular Disease - Commissioning Guide
        • Commissioning Guide on Management of Paediatric Torsion for Consultation
        • Confidentiality and Disclosure of Health Information - Toolkit
        • Consent: Supported Decision-Making - a good practice guide
        • Coronary Artery Bypass
        • Course Accreditation
        • Criteria for Recognition of Posts Suitable for Training in the MFDS/MFD Examination
        • Curriculum Framework for the Surgical Care Practitioner: PLG response
        • Delivering High-quality Surgical Services for the Future
        • Delivering Surgical Services: Options for maximising resources
        • Dental Sedation Report
        • Good Practice in the Dental Specialties (2004)
        • Developing a Modern Surgical Workforce
        • Discectomy
        • Duty of Candour Review - Final Report
        • Duty of Candour - Guidance for Surgeons and Employers
        • Emergency General Surgery - Commissioning Guide
        • Caring for patients who refuse blood - a guide to good practice
        • Emergency General Surgery
        • End of Life Care Guidance
        • Ethical Principals of Working Overseas
        • Improving Surgical Training
        • Outpatient clinics: A guide to good practice
        • RCS Surgical Care Team Guidance Framework
        • RCS Surgical Research Report 2017
        • Surgical Innovation New Techniques and Technologies
        • Using data to support change in clinical practice
        • Working together to improve the local delivery of the General Surgery of Childhood
        • Emergency Surgery: Standards for unscheduled care
        • Ensuring the Provision of General Paediatric Surgery in the District General Hospital
        • Equality and Diversity
        • Facial Transplantation: Working Party Report (2006)
        • Faecal Incontinence - Commissioning Guide
        • FDS Prospectus 2005-2006
        • First Patient Report of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit
        • Foreskin Conditions - Commissioning Guide
        • From Innovation to Adoption
        • From Theory to Theatre: Overcoming barriers to innovation in surgery
        • Gall Bladder Removal
        • Gallstones - Commissioning Guide
        • General Guidelines and Protocol for the Recognition of Posts Suitable for Training under the MFDS/MFD and the MRCS(Eng) Regulations
        • General Paediatric Surgery Survey
        • General Professional Training in England and Wales
        • GMC Revalidation FAQs for Retired Doctors
        • Going into Hospital for an Operation
        • Good Medical Practice
        • Good Practice in the Dental Specialties (2001)
        • Good Surgical Practice
        • Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD) - Commissioning Guide
        • Groin Hernia Repair
        • Good Surgical Practice - Mentoring
        • Good Surgical Practice - Morbidity and Mortality Meetings
        • Guidance for Health Authorities and Dental Schools Applying to FDS
        • Guidance for Producing Cosmetic Surgery Information for Patients
        • Guidance on Supporting Information for Revalidation for Surgery
        • Guide on Revalidation for SAS Surgeons
        • Guidelines for Appointment to Hospital Practitioner Grade in the Dentally Based Specialties
        • Guidelines for Appointment to Staff Grade in the Dentally Based Specialties
        • Guidelines for Community Dental Services applying to the Faculty of Dental Surgery for Recognition of Posts within the Service for Training for the MFDS
        • Guidelines for Faculty Assessors on Advisory Appointment Committees for Consultants
        • Guidelines for the Recognition of Posts in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Suitable for Training under the FRCS(Eng)/MRCS Regulations
        • Handbook for College Assessors 2016
        • Handbook for College Assessors
        • Having an Operation?
        • Hernia - Commissioning Guide
        • The High Performing Surgical Team: A guide to best practice
        • The Higher Risk General Surgical Patient
        • Hospital Episode Stats and Revalidation
        • Improving Surgical Practice: Learning from the experience of RCS invited reviews
        • Improving your Elective Patient's Journey
        • Laparoscopic Nephrectomy
        • Laryngeal Transplantation: Working party final report
        • Leadership and Management of Surgical Teams
        • Live Surgery Broadcasts - Position Statement
        • Liver Transplant Audit Report
        • Locum Doctor Costs in NHS Trusts in England
        • Locum Surgeons: Principles and standards
        • Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms - Commissioning Guide
        • Lung Resection
        • Male Circumcision: Guidance for Healthcare Practitioners
        • Manual of Specialist Training in Dentistry in the United Kingdom and Ireland
        • Massive Weight Loss Body Countouring - Commissioning Guide
        • National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit - Third Report
        • National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit - Fourth Report
        • National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit - First Report
        • National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit - Second Report
        • Medical Education England Review of the Impact of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) on the Quality of Postgraduate Training
        • Mentoring - A Guide to Good Practice
        • Methodologies for Clinical Audit in Dentistry
        • Mid-Staffordshire NHS FT Public Inquiry: The RCS view
        • Morbidity and Mortality - A Guide to Good Practice
        • Nasal Septoplasty
        • National Joint Registry Report
        • National Undergraduate Curriculum in Surgery
        • National Vascular Registry Report on Surgical Outcomes
        • Non-pharmacological Behaviour Management
        • NPCA Annual Report
        • National Vascular Registry Annual Report
        • Oesophagectomy
        • Openness and Transparency in Surgery
        • Openness with Patients - Position statement
        • Clinical Guidelines and Integrated Care Pathways for the Oral Health Care of People with Learning Disabilities
        • Orthognathic Procedures - Commissioning Guide
        • Osteoarthritis of Knee - Commissioning Guide
        • Otitis Media with Effusion - Commissioning Guide
        • Paediatric Emergency Appendicectomy - Commissioning guide
        • Paediatric Orchidoplexy - Commissioning guide
        • Painful Deformed Great Toe in Adults - Commissioning Guide
        • Painful Hip - Commissioning Guide
        • Patient Outcomes in Surgery Report
        • Pinnaplasty - Commissioning Guide
        • Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) Breast Implants: Joint Surgical Statement on Clinical Guidance for Patients, GPs and Surgeons
        • National Comparative Audit of Surgery for Nasal Polyposis and Chronic Rhinosinusitis
        • Postgraduate Programme Accreditation Standards
        • Pre-operative Tests Report
        • Professional Standards for Cosmetic Practice
        • Professional Standards for Cosmetic Surgery
        • Provision of General Children's Surgery - Commissioning Guide
        • Quality Assurance for the Dental Specialties
        • Quality Indicators for Job Plans for SAS Surgeons
        • A Question of Balance: The extended surgical team
        • Raising Concerns - A Quick Guide for Surgeons
        • RCS Briefing - Health and Social Care Bill 2011
        • RCS Briefing - Health and Social Care Bill: Third Reading and Report Stage Briefing
        • RCS Briefing - Health and Social Care Bill: Second Reading
        • RCS Briefing - Procedures of Limited Clinical Value
        • RCS Briefing - Seven Day Care Briefing
        • RCS Position Statement - Commissioning a Competent Surgical Service
        • RCS position statement - Surgical assistants
        • RCS Response - Proposals for Legislation on Organ and Tissue Donation
        • RCS Response - Centre for Workforce Intelligence: Shape of the Medical Workforce
        • RCS Response - Commissioning a Competent Surgical Service
        • RCS Response - Draft EU Directive on the Recognition of Professional Qualifications
        • RCS Response - European Commission Green Paper on Modernising the Professional Qualifications Directive
        • RCS Response - European Commission Consultation on the Professional Qualifications
        • RCS Response - European Commission Second Phase Consultation: Reviewing the European Working Time Directive
        • RCS Response - Future Forum, Phase Two: Education and Training
        • RCS Response - Future Forum, Phase Two: Information
        • RCS Response - Future Forum, Phase Two: Integrated Services
        • RCS Response - Health and Social Care Bill: Re-committall to Bill Committee
        • RCS Response - Innovation in the NHS
        • RCS Response - NHS Future Forum: Listening Exercise
        • RCS Response - NICE Consultation on Potential COF Indicators
        • RCS Response - Proposals to Introduce Independent Prescribing to Podiatrists
        • RCS Response to Welsh Assembly Health Strategy
        • RCS Response to Welsh Assembly Organ Donation White Paper
        • Reconfiguration of Surgical, Accident and Emergency and Trauma Services in the UK
        • Rectal Bleeding - Commissioning Guide
        • REFER Project Research Report
        • Regional Trauma Systems: Interim guidance for commissioners
        • Report on the State of Children's Oral Health
        • Research Report 2003-2004
        • Research Report 2005-2007
        • Research Report 2008-2009
        • Research Report 2010-2011
        • Reshaping Surgical Services: Principles for Change
        • Revalidation Guide for Surgery
        • Rhinosinusitis - Commissioning Guide
        • Rota Planning: Guidance from the Working Time Directive Working Party
        • Safe Handover: Guidance from the Working Time Directive Working Party
        • Safe Shift Working for Surgeons in Training: Revised College policy statement
        • Separating Emergency and Elective Surgical Care: Recommendations for practice
        • The Shape of Training
        • Smokers and Overweight Patients: Soft targets for NHS savings?
        • Standards for Children's Surgery
        • Standards for non specialist emergency surgical care of children
        • Standards for Non-specialist Emergency Surgical Care of Children
        • State of Surgery in Wales
        • Subacromial Shoulder Pain - Commissioning Guide
        • National Study of Subarahnoid Haemorrhage Final Report
        • Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs) - Policy statement
        • Surgery for Children: Delivering a First Class Service
        • Surgical Leadership: A guide to best practice
        • Surgical Research Report 2011
        • Surgical Research Report 2012
        • Surgical Research Report 2013
        • Surgical Research Report 2015-16
        • Surgical Titles in the NHS - Position Statement
        • Surgical Tutor Handbook
        • Surgical Workforce 2006: Interim Report and Policy Update
        • Surgical Workforce: 2007 Update
        • Surgical Workforce Census Report
        • The Surgical Workforce in the New NHS Report
        • Surgical Workforce 2010: Profile and Trends
        • Surgical Workforce Report 2011
        • UK Surgical Workforce Statistics
        • The Consultant Surgeon and the Consultant-delivered Service
        • The High Performing Surgical Team
        • The Higher Risk General Surgical Patient: Towards improved care for a forgotten group
        • Theory to Theatre
        • Thyroidectomy
        • Temporomandibular Joint Disorders (TMJ) - Commissioning Guide
        • Tomorrow's Leaders
        • National Prospective Tonsillectomy Audit Final Report
        • Tonsillectomy - Commissioning Guide
        • Total Hip Replacement
        • Total Knee Replacement
        • Treatment of Painful Tingling Fingers - Commissioning Guide
        • Undergraduate Curriculum
        • Using Social Media - A Practical and Ethical Guide for Surgeons
        • Varicose Veins - Commissioning Guide
        • Weight Assessment and Management Tier Services - Commissioning Guide
        • Wisdom Teeth Extraction
        • Workforce Report
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